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Rag Radio 04-20-2010 / Legendary armadillo artist Jim Franklin

by: Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer

Publication date: 2010-04-20

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States

Topics: Underground Press, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Jim Franklin, Sixties, Armadillo Wold Headquarters, Vulcan Gas Company, Austin Music, Artists, Poster Artists, The Rag

-A conversation with Jim Franklin, Austin's legendary surrealist poster and comix artist, painter, muralist, and performance artist. Developed the armadillo as an international symbol for Texas. Played an important role in Austin's most important 60s-70s rock hall/counterculture centers: was a founder of the Vulcan Gas Company and helped make Armadillo World Headquarters famous as artist and MC. A pioneer of Sixties psychedelic poster art. Artist for 60s underground paper The Rag.
Host and producer: Thorne Dreyer. Engineer: Tracey Schulz.